Hi On Nov 7, 2007 10:31 PM, Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello. > > On 11/7/07, Dushan Tcholich <dusanc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Kernel: Gentoo 2.6.22-r2 + reiser4-for-2.6.22-2.patch > > fstab: > > /dev/sda2 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 > > /dev/sda5 / reiser4 0 0 > > /dev/sda3 none swap sw 0 0 > > /dev/sda6 /home ext3 noatime 0 0 > > > > reiser4 partition is with cryptocompress (lzo) default settings. > > > > I usually mount r4 with -noatime, but after some debbuging with some users > > on irc (rvalles), who have intermitent large stalls, we found that only > > difference between our setups was my -noatime flag in fstab. > > Plus rvalles doesn't use compression (isn't it?) He had stalls without compression, but now switched to compression and still has them. But I can't reproduce them with -noatime option. > > > I tried to mount / without -noatime, started gnome, and then in about same > > time evolution, firefox, played some mp3s, avis, did a kernel compile, > > emerge -uD world (compiled few packages), acessed some random fles in > > /usr/src/linux, started gnome disk usage analyser etc. and had no stalls at > > all. > > And then I tried to reboot. System stalled for 3min 25 sec (i was ready with > > a watch :)) before printing the first message, with heavy disk activity. > > Upon reboot I just changed line in fstab with nano to mount r4 with -noatime > > and rebooted agin. Now there were no stalls. > > To my inexperienced eyes it looks like lazy writes of atime are adding with that "reiser4 writes continuously to same sector" bug. > > Currently I am preparing a patch for this problem. > Not sure about its efficiency: we'll take a look.. Great > > Thanks, > Edward. > Dushan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
